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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
What was history anyway but the lies of a winning few? Why was it worth protecting, when it forgot the starving child under siege, the slave woman on her deathbed, the man lost at sea? It was an imperfect record written by a biased hand, diluted to garner the most agreement from competing parties.
This book... where do I even begin? How about with the simplest thing... This book is boring. It does not excite the reader. I was not drawn into the characters or the plotline, much like the first book. The book was 532 pages, but I don't even remember most of the plotline because that's how unmemorable it was. For a second there in the middle, I thought I would end up giving this 3 stars because I was intrigued at certain points, but by the halfway point I was just dragging my feet to finish this. So what went wrong?
There are so many characters, and none of them are written well. There are also characters just thrown into the mix, to be abandoned and then returned to at the end of the book. If this was supposed to be a twist, it's honestly just corny. Speaking of corniness... this whole book is a melodramatic cringe. There are too many quotes about destiny and love that just made me want to stick a fork in an electrical socket. Here's a quote from the final battle:
...when the Shadow stabbed at his heart, the bead caught the tip of the blade.
Awww the earring necklace that Etta gave to Nicholas as a token of her undying love saved him from dying, awwww. NOT. First of all, that just makes no sense. A SWORD was stopped by a... BEAD? Come on. And even if it did make sense, that's the cheesiest plot point I've ever heard.
We've covered characters and writing, and this segues me into the last flaw of the book: the plot itself. I mentioned that it's boring, but also it just doesn't make sense. There are so many plot holes with the time travel plot because it isn't well established in the beginning, and it makes the whole thing implausible. The author tries to make predetermined destinies coexist with free will, and by definition these two things cannot coexist. It just does not make sense. I was also confused by parts, I didn't understand what was going on with Li Min, or Rose's Grand Plan. Things were not explained well. It was incredibly frustrating.
There were also just some parts of the plot that made me laugh at how ridiculous and unnecessary they were. For example: the Shadows and the Ancient One. There was already enough going on with the Ironwoods, Lindens, and Hemlocks, why add in some scary spooky Shadow dudes just for the heck of it? If the author really wanted to add another competing group, why not add the Jacarandas, who were consistently mentioned but never actually showed up in the story? The Ancient One is, perhaps, the biggest plot letdown of this novel. I actually snorted at the part where Etta literally THROWS A TORCH at him, and he burns up like tissue paper. Like what??? This dude is the most powerful traveler, and everyone is afraid of him, and he has an army, and he's going to Thanos everyone out of existence, but he gets taken down by little more than a lit match? I think that is the epitome of the lack of logic in this book.
My overall series rating: 1.5 stars. Obviously, I didn't like it. It was kind of a waste of my time, and I do not recommend this time travel story. I do plan on reading [b:The Darkest Minds|10576365|The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)|Alexandra Bracken|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1343178841l/10576365._SY75_.jpg|15483434] in the future, so fingers crossed that I like that one better!
This book... where do I even begin? How about with the simplest thing... This book is boring. It does not excite the reader. I was not drawn into the characters or the plotline, much like the first book. The book was 532 pages, but I don't even remember most of the plotline because that's how unmemorable it was. For a second there in the middle, I thought I would end up giving this 3 stars because I was intrigued at certain points, but by the halfway point I was just dragging my feet to finish this. So what went wrong?
There are so many characters, and none of them are written well. There are also characters just thrown into the mix, to be abandoned and then returned to at the end of the book. If this was supposed to be a twist, it's honestly just corny. Speaking of corniness... this whole book is a melodramatic cringe. There are too many quotes about destiny and love that just made me want to stick a fork in an electrical socket. Here's a quote from the final battle:
...when the Shadow stabbed at his heart, the bead caught the tip of the blade.
Awww the earring necklace that Etta gave to Nicholas as a token of her undying love saved him from dying, awwww. NOT. First of all, that just makes no sense. A SWORD was stopped by a... BEAD? Come on. And even if it did make sense, that's the cheesiest plot point I've ever heard.
We've covered characters and writing, and this segues me into the last flaw of the book: the plot itself. I mentioned that it's boring, but also it just doesn't make sense. There are so many plot holes with the time travel plot because it isn't well established in the beginning, and it makes the whole thing implausible. The author tries to make predetermined destinies coexist with free will, and by definition these two things cannot coexist. It just does not make sense. I was also confused by parts, I didn't understand what was going on with Li Min, or Rose's Grand Plan. Things were not explained well. It was incredibly frustrating.
There were also just some parts of the plot that made me laugh at how ridiculous and unnecessary they were. For example: the Shadows and the Ancient One. There was already enough going on with the Ironwoods, Lindens, and Hemlocks, why add in some scary spooky Shadow dudes just for the heck of it? If the author really wanted to add another competing group, why not add the Jacarandas, who were consistently mentioned but never actually showed up in the story? The Ancient One is, perhaps, the biggest plot letdown of this novel. I actually snorted at the part where Etta literally THROWS A TORCH at him, and he burns up like tissue paper. Like what??? This dude is the most powerful traveler, and everyone is afraid of him, and he has an army, and he's going to Thanos everyone out of existence, but he gets taken down by little more than a lit match? I think that is the epitome of the lack of logic in this book.
My overall series rating: 1.5 stars. Obviously, I didn't like it. It was kind of a waste of my time, and I do not recommend this time travel story. I do plan on reading [b:The Darkest Minds|10576365|The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)|Alexandra Bracken|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1343178841l/10576365._SY75_.jpg|15483434] in the future, so fingers crossed that I like that one better!
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Just like Passenger, Wayfarer had a slow start as it took me over 100 pages to become fully immersed in the story again. But once you are 100% back in Bracken's novels, they pull you in with their fast paced plot and surprising twists. I love when authors can write a novel so cleverly that I am left absolutely shocked when a plot twist occurs. The writing was beautiful, the new characters intriguing, the time periods incredibly interesting, and I was satisfied with the ending (even though the last 100 pages or so had me on the edge of my seat). Such a wonderful duology!
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
As I was reading this I kept thinking it was 3 stars. I felt it wasn't as good as Passenger, the first book and that the relationship created between the main characters more interesting in the first. But ultimately, it was the last 100 pages of the book that moved it up to 4 stars. I would have liked to see Nicholas be stronger in character, more like I envisioned him in Passenger, but still worth the read.
As a sequel, I thought this book was good, just not super great. It was really confusing to read, though I still like the idea of the book. Sometimes the detail was in the way of the plot that was actually occurring, which I never thought I'd ever say. This took me way too long to read and made me want to finish.
This book was... wow. The writing was so beautiful and captivating and the story was so compelling and left me on the edge of my seat the whole time. It made me feel ALL the emotions and it was just AMAZING.
The beginning was miserably boring, but that may have been because I had forgotten who everyone was. Way too long and wordy. And total UGH on the ending, I was almost happy there wasn't going to be a HEA but then you ruined it and gave them that HEA.
I’m an emotional mess and my heart is pounding. The last hundred pages of this wrecked me entirely. I feel the way about Etta and Nicholas as I feel about the Doctor and Rose, which is to say, they make me a blubbering disaster and I love every moment that they’re together on the page.
The previous four hundred pages, however, dragged on SO much because I spent the whole book waiting for the thing™️ to just happen already. This could have been a lot shorter and I really don’t think that it would have affected much.
The previous four hundred pages, however, dragged on SO much because I spent the whole book waiting for the thing™️ to just happen already. This could have been a lot shorter and I really don’t think that it would have affected much.
Passenger was one of my favorite books of 2016, so I eagerly anticipated the arrival of this second and final book in the series.
This book finds Etta and Nick separated, and on separate tracks for most of the book. The cast of secondary characters deepens, and I enjoyed both the fast-paced adventure and character development.
However, much of the early set-up to the next phase of the adventure felt forced, or predicated on characters' poor decisions, which is not what I had grown to expect of the main characters from the first story. I was irritated.
The second half of the book unfolded well, and the resolution was satisfying.
This book finds Etta and Nick separated, and on separate tracks for most of the book. The cast of secondary characters deepens, and I enjoyed both the fast-paced adventure and character development.
However, much of the early set-up to the next phase of the adventure felt forced, or predicated on characters' poor decisions, which is not what I had grown to expect of the main characters from the first story. I was irritated.
The second half of the book unfolded well, and the resolution was satisfying.